Exclusive: Cyber-criminals are selling victim’s selfies on the dark web

You can buy almost anything on the dark web. The shrouded underbelly of the Internet is most known for its clandestine markets that make a brisk trade in the sale of drugs, weapons, and the details and identities of millions of people.

It’s the latter category that’s taken an interesting turn, with some cyber-criminals now including selfies among their data dumps.

Yes, selfies. At the start of the year, Israeli dark-web research firm Sixgill noticed a data dump for sale on a largely Russian-language dark web forum. What distinguished this dump from the thousands of others available is that each record was accompanied with a selfie of the user.